I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.
-Tom Waits
Quotations
Music
Songs are as sad as the listener.
-Jonathan Safran Foer
"Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.
-Toba Beta
"Betelgeuse Incident"
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
-Voltaire
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
-George Eliot
Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
There is always music amongst the trees in the garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it.
-Minnie Aumonier
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words.
-Elie Wiesel
